A Milwaukee Record retrospective from 2026. Harrison Colby called him "one of our city's most unsung artists" and noted how few local articles there were, in life or in death.
A 2025 upload described as "taken from boiler room mix". No matching set or tracklist has turned up, and the sd-laika account has no public mix under that name.
Editions
Negative Patterns, upload, third party, unidentified, 1 track, unlisted, YouTube A lead, not a release.
Photograph of Peter, cropped by Mixmag for the 2024 article. The same photograph is his artist picture.
The only statement from Peter's family that I found, given to Mixmag in July 2024. They confirmed the death and called him "very funny, intelligent and kind-hearted".
Cover of Laika, the same frame as That's Harakiri, taken from a cleaner source and tinted green.
A 17-track, 40m03 bootleg posted by aa llaa in October 2020, compiled by BIGSHOTJAMES from the private folder. Eight tracks exist only here and three only on Lost Files. Nine are on both, five of them inside two larger files.
artwork_source The Cage / Ori, Same frame as the cover of That's Harakiri, tinted green.
artwork_editor BIGSHOTJAMES, Noise applied to the image.
Editions
Laika, bootleg, aa llaa, YouTube, 17 tracks, 40:03 BIGSHOTJAMES bootleg, with tracks split from a private folder. It went through YouTube's 131 kbps Opus, so it is not a master.
thrwa26 cleaned up the file called Untitled and matched it to Decline Sequel, another file from the same folder. That is where the name Decline comes from, and no official source for it has turned up.
Credits
named_by thrwa26, He says 'im p sure'. Not an official name.
commenter @dyland7567, Identified the sung vocal as Christina Aguilera.
commenter @GlitchUnpatched, Identified the opening sample as The Decline of Western Civilization.
commenter @SignificantOther11, Asked who sang the vocal at the one-minute mark.
@BIGSHOTJAMES says the folder was shared in the comments under an earlier bootleg. That upload is gone, and the link is not among the comments that remain.
uploader Brayden Smith, Channel with 29 subscribers.
commenter @cunty, Asked for the files again in November 2024.
Editions
Lost Files, bootleg, Brayden Smith, YouTube, 9 tracks, 40:34 Bootleg of material from 2012 to 2017. The original MEGA folder had nine files and now has two. This copy is complete, at 320 kbps.
comment, Comment by @cunty, YouTube, on the upload of Lost Files, Nov 2024
Upload Without Permission
comment, 4 November 2019, circulating
On 4 November 2019, @user-ob9zo9cr4c wrote under the Lost Files upload "sick tracks, but fuck @brayden smith for uploading it without permission." At least one listener took the upload as unauthorised. Nothing explains who removed the missing MEGA files.
Photograph Peter shared with the SoundCloud upload of Dreadful John. It is also the cover of Mostly Trash.
A self-released 6m21 track from 2015, one of the four files in the MediaFire folder. The Laika copy runs 87 ms late against the Lost Files copy. The old post is gone, but a public copy survives on another account.
Editions
Dreadful John, track, MediaFire, 1 track, 6:21 Same master as the Laika bootleg.
Photograph Peter shared with the SoundCloud upload of Mostly Trash. It is also the cover of Dreadful John.
A self-released 6m04 file from 2015, one of the four in the MediaFire folder, with a 320 kbps link in the SoundCloud description and profile. It runs three pieces back to back, separated by a second of silence, and the same three are on Laika as Dirt Boss, Queen Lena and Duane Vs. Big Nurse. The old post is gone, but a public copy survives on another account.
Editions
Mostly Trash, track, MediaFire, 1 track, 6:04 The original link still works.
Cover of Sanpaku Island, from the Last.fm release page.
A self-released 5m18 track from 2015, the shortest of the four files in the MediaFire folder. It is also on Laika, 166 ms late against the Lost Files copy. The old post is gone, but a public copy survives on another account.
Editions
Sanpaku Island, track, MediaFire, 1 track, 5:18 Same master as the Laika bootleg.
A track with no documented release. It is track 7 of Lost Files and track 11 of Laika, at 3m04 on both. The Lost Files copy opens with 3.5 seconds of unidentified audio, then a pause. The Laika copy starts inside that pause.
Credits
artist Peter Runge, Self-released single, no label.
That's Harakiri, LP, Tri Angle, 11 tracks, 32:06 Meshes, Great God Pan, Peace, Gutter Vibrations, I Don't, You Were Wrong, Remote Heaven, Don't Know, It's Ritual, Percressing, Peaked.
Artwork for "36", published with the XLR8R free download.
XLR8R gave "36" away as a free download in 2012. It stayed off the albums and came back years later as the first track of Lost Files. There was no release of its own.
database, Sd Laika: 36, Discogs, release 7724208, 29 Jun 2012
Mixtape Foolin
extra, 2012, confirmed
Tracklist image for Mixtape Foolin, from the 2012 MediaFire post.
A 2012 mix, the fourth file in the MediaFire folder. The file says 2012 and Last.fm dates the upload to 2013. The 15m51 mix is on the official SoundCloud account.
A folder Peter had shared, according to @BIGSHOTJAMES, who says it came from someone who spoke to Peter. Both bootlegs draw on it. I found nothing pointing to a server leak or a radio rip.
Credits
sender Peter Runge, Private correspondence, not a server leak.
Cover of Unknown Vectors, published with the EP. No credit is recorded.
The debut EP on Visionist's Lost Codes, catalogue number LC:001. Spaceman Piff, Creepy Crawling, Tropic of Cancer, Tropic of Capricorn and I Feel Cold, plus a Spaceman Piff remix.
Cover of Do It Yourself (Candy), published with the Fan-belt interview.
A homemade album he recorded as Birth-Days over winter break, on Audacity, with Ben on bass, Andrew on drums and synth, and Sugar on a Casio. No copy is known to survive.
Adam Lovinus interviewed him for the Fan-belt Milwaukee blog in March 2009. It is the only interview he gave, and it is as Birth-Days, before Sd Laika.
Credits
interviewer Adam Lovinus, Fan-belt Milwaukee, 2009.
He left Milwaukee for Oberlin College in Ohio. In a Fan-belt interview from his first year he is recording alone in his dorm and says he had not met anyone to work with.
Tracks posted on the Live Dad blog, including pool loop, Don't Throw Up and S.S. Penman, and jams with Geocash. The Sendspace links are dead, and the three MySpace tracks only ever existed as RTMP streams.
Credits
artist Peter Runge, Project before Sd Laika. Three tracks on MySpace.
performer Andrew Jambura, Boyscouts. Friendship and collaboration.
Christina Aguilera's 2002 single, sampled in "Decline". The same sample is in Creepy Crawling and its VIP. It was identified by ear, and no credit exists.
The third film in Penelope Spheeris's Decline series, from 1998, follows homeless punk teenagers in Los Angeles. The exchange in "Decline" ("where do you think you'll be in 10 years?" and "I'll be dead") comes from it. One comment dated the clip to 1981. The scene is from Part III.
An eleven-minute short in colour, sixteen millimetres, and the first film Shūji Terayama made. It asks whether a man is a prisoner of time. Discogs gives the double title The Cage / Ori and Milwaukee Record calls it Ori.
Credits
director Shūji Terayama, The only film with a credit already represented.
Maya Deren and Alexandr Hackenschmied's 1943 short, scored by Teiji Ito. "Meshes" samples the soundtrack. WhoSampled lists it as Sd Laika's only sample entry, and Wikipedia repeats it.
i 'made' this compilation after being so obsessed with this fucking phenomenal artist for a good season. [...] this originally comes from the comment section of ANOTHER sd laika bootleg [...] from someone that used to talk to em and just shared a folder of shit laika sent em. the only newish thing were separation of tracks and full source quality of the 'that's harakiri' album art [...] i only found one collab track and some 'evidence' (last.fm data) of 50 sum tracks
The sample at the beginning is from The Decline of Western Civilization (1981), dir. by Penelope Spheeris. RIP Sd Laika, you were such a talented, beautiful soul...
a guy shared his mega folder of rare sd laika tunes in the "lost files" comment section, if you don't see it just sort by newest first. p sure every single song in this is taken from there
Just checked that Creepy Crawling VIP and its 100% Xtina, and yeah, pretty certain its her here again. I thought he produced this track post That's Harakiri but its sampled in the Idiot Thug mix so it could be he produced it with the bulk of his work in 2011/2012
